My last endoscope checkup was in February....
I manage mostly without medication by avoiding certain foods. I have Pentasa suppositories and Entocort I take a shorter time when I feel like it is needed. This I do if I begin to feel a slight...
!!WARNING!! Castor oil is a laxative. I take no responsibility for what happens if you take it. I believe UC is an umbrella name for many different diseases causing ulcers at the same place and what...
Your story sounds in many ways like mine. I am diagnosed with UC and for me too it all begun strong antibiotics (I do not remember the name, but it was very strong). Like you, I get help from Flagyl...
I have noticed a positive effect from food with acids. It can be everything from just pure vitamin C (ascorbic acid) to almonds and spinach containing oxalic acid, to the decaf tea I am drinking. Has...
I do take Vitamin C daily. In fact, Vitamin C also makes me to flare less frequently....
I have been taking a couple of months rutin as a supplement and I have seen a positive effect. It is dirt cheap, so testing it does not cost much. From Wikipedia the maybe most relevant parts: ...
This sounds a bit like the flare I had several years ago. For me, almonds became the rescue. I know almonds might be a problem for some with UC, so if you normally react on almonds do not try. If you...
It could also be you have an infection. Sometimes I need Flagyl to get my guts in good shape....
As soon as I use a bit of dairy products I begin to get a bit of blood during BM. If I still continue with dairy I am surely ending up getting a flare....
I have read in several books that drinking to meal dilutes the acids and causes problem. The doctor who sent me to the first endoscopy for verifying what he suspect was Crohns or UC (turned out to...
I am sorry, but I will have to give you an answer you will not like. It is best to use as little water as possible during a meal because: 1. It does dilute the acid in your stomach that should take...
While I have no doubt that vinegar might help to get better bacteria in the guts, I would still be careful with using vinegar. Some books I have at home claim vinegar is harmful for the linings of...
I begun with effervescent vitamin C (different brands). They have the problem that they often contain laxative sweeteners. Then I bought for test some liposomal vitamin C made by Livon Labs. Then I...
I am supposed to use Pentasa, but I have not been taking my pills as somehow they make me more tired. I have Pentasa at home that I could take if I feel that things begins to go into the wrong...
Flagyl seem to always help me too. Glad you managed to get over your flare without prednisolon!...
This is normally the time of the year when I would have my flares, but not this year. I have been taking 3-5g of vitamin C daily, which is quite high. I take some in the morning, some in the...
Before I got diagnosed I donated blood but I quit after I got diagnosed. My reasoning is that I should not put anyone in danger. As long the cause of UC is not known, there is a chance I might give...
Enemas are definitely not as bad as they sound like. I have been doing enemas about two years ago with probiotics (VSL#3 + Mutaflor) and even though it sound very nasty, it is definitely doable. Now...
I am off medicines (quit during 2012), but neither because of SCD nor Paelo diet. I tried SCD, but I had not that big success. What helped me was to drop dairy (as you did) and then begin with "food...
This thread gives me really mixed feelings: While I am very happy you are getting better, bananagirl, I feel sad you end up taking an addicting drug. I wish the best for you and I hope you are doing...
Since I am continously in remission, even while not taking medicines, I hardly ever come here. It was more a coincidence I came here today. I am coming here a bit sometimes to see if somebody has...
I am the opposite of notsosicklygirl. While excluding or including stuff in my diet did not help me much (I still saw some kind of improvement from leaving out dairy), I still think proper eating is...
Do you recognize the symptoms before you reach a flaring condition? I do not know if it is possible for everybody with UC, but I get a weak pain in my guts as a warning sign before anything has been...
You should tell anyone complaining they should be happy to find a "normal" restroom with occationally somebody sitting there than a recently "spray painted" restroom....
I was a bit in the same situation. Apparently my body could not take Asacol. I became very ill from them. Instead I begun eating Entocort pills. They helped in the beginning, but slowly I begun to...
There is an easy solution (which helped me) when it comes to gas: food combination. Like you I had to rush to the toilet all the time because of gas. 5 minutes of walking was often what I could take...
If you google about the topic, you will notice that bad mouth hygiene is in many cases causing problem in the gut. By keeping oregano oil in the mouth, you might eliminate bad pathogens there, such...
This week I cheated with my diet. Consequence: First mucus, then D, then D with blood and a lot of gas. Conclusion: I am definitely having something going on in my guts. I had blood coming before...
I definitely do not think I am cured. It is just that the doctor claims I never had UC from the beginning and that I must have been wrong diagnosed. I wonder if other have been going through...
A few years ago I got diagnosed with UC alternatively Crohns. I had small wounds all the way up to the thin intestine in a colonoscopy. Because the wounds went that high up they said I probably have...
Too high consumption of salt is apparently linked to autoimmune diseases: http://www.nature.com/news/salt-linked-to-autoimmune-diseases-1.12555 ...
Dairy products might always be a problem, I also suggested to leave out dairy in my post above. Not everybody do have enzymes to break down lactose. The science behind food combining is also about...
Yep, it is fully normal. I also was like that. Thanks to food combining I got rid of that problem....
The only thing I know from own experience is really efficient when it comes to gas is food combination! You can google for food combination and see how to categorize things. The rules are basically...
It is always scary to quit those medicines. I really believe the body is adjusting to the medicines (that is why I had to increase the intake of Endocort) and when you quit it takes some time to...
I am also without medicines. Pre diagnose I thought I had milk allergy as my symptom became worse when using dairy products. I was earlier a lacto-ovo vegetarian, but I dropped both milk and eggs...
When they diagnosed me, I had small wounds all the way as far up as they got with the camera. So the whole length they could look at. At that point I was on my way to get better so the wounds were...
Today I went to colonoscopy. This was the first colonoscopy since I quit taking medicines almost one year ago. They could not find any visible problem. Everything looked good. They took also a few...
Don't mix too much together if you have a salad! Some green stuff are better tolerated than other. I have noticed I can stand very well celery stalks. Mix those stalks with a bit of soaked almonds,...
I finally have firm poop coming out, after I introduced more almonds in my diet. It is strange how much almonds apparently affect me. My problem now is: When I feel a need to go to a toilet, I have...
First I am not a doctor and in no way an expert, but I have noticed the same when it comes to medicines. In the beginning cortisone helped well, then I had to increase the amount. Somebody on this...
There are so many dead ends when it comes to Ulcerative Colitis. I have been tempted to create a homepage helping people to avoid the most bad dead ends. It would be a site where you can post...
Humans have something nowadays is called a "plastic mind". We can form ourselves and our feelings: Imagine a field with something growing on. If you walk once upon that field, there is almost no...
I also have this chronic cough......
I am not eating any medicines at the moment (with except for some mutaflor sometimes, which gives terrible gas). Thanks to diet, I survive without much medication. I am cheating with my diet a few...
The strange thing is that it even takes a few days for the lactic acid to disappear from the muscles after it has been coming....
I have chronically hurting shoulder and back muscles. My leg muscles get full of lactic acid from just a bit of moving. Earlier I have been thinking it is because I am not working out enough, but now...
I feel like I am a person just repeating myself over and over (like some old people are doing), still I can not stop myself from repeating once more: There is nothing better against gas than proper...
I am 100% sure bacteria is involved in one way or another. VSL#3 and such has not helped me noticeable, all bacteria tests has shown clean, still I have reasons to believe bacteria is involve. I have...